POLICE officers who have discovered a body in Derby say it is believed to be missing man Ricky Hill.
Derbyshire police said they received a call from a member of the public on Saturday at 3.50pm, to report the discovery of a body of a man in a wooded area near to Balmoral Close, Littleover.
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A spokesman for the force said: "Police believe the body to be that of Ricky Hill, who went missing from Royal Derby Hospital on Tuesday, September 23.
"A formal identification of the body is yet to take place."
Ricky, of Somercotes, went missing from the hospital, in Uttoxeter New Road, on that day after 8.30am, when he was last seen. Balmoral Close is located nearby the hospital.
His family said he had been admitted after being diagnosed as suffering from depression.
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